playcanvas / playcanvas/engine
Create API to assign a material to a text UI element
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area: ui
enhancement
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- JavaScript
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Description
We can do so with the image element via https://developer.playcanvas.com/api/pc.ElementComponent.html#material
Can we do the same to the text element?
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Use the linked ElementComponent material API as the reference point, then locate the text UI element implementation and its public API. Compare its capabilities with the image element and verify the intended material-assignment behavior. Done means text elements expose an equivalent way to assign a material.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- api, game-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100